“The difference in the game wasn’t Xs and Os, it was doing what you had to do personally through every possession,” Beaumont said. “That’s what we referenced. It’s toughness. It’s not chucking people, it’s not dirty plays, it’s doing what you have to do to get the job done. And we didn’t do enough of it.”

Wofford improved to 9-15, 3-8. The Terriers entered the game in last place in the league’s South Division and took only their second victory in their last eight games.

“The difference in the game wasn’t Xs and Os, it was doing what you had to do personally through every possession,” Beaumont said. “That’s what we referenced. It’s toughness. It’s not chucking people, it’s not dirty plays, it’s doing what you have to do to get the job done. And we didn’t do enough of it.”

Wofford improved to 9-15, 3-8. The Terriers entered the game in last place in the league’s South Division and took only their second victory in their last eight games.

“Hats off to our guys,” Wofford coach Mike Young said. “They handled it with aplomb. They were responsible and accountable, and they took care of each other when we were in key situations.”

Elon’s 50 points was a season-low. The previous low was 54 in losses to College of Charleston and Duke.

The Phoenix entered averaging 70.4 points per game in conference play.

“I felt like Wofford was more aggressive,” Elon coach Matt Matheny said. “As a result, they made it very difficult for us to get clean looks offensively, and they guarded us very well. And then defensively, we had some good stretches, but when you’re struggling to get clean looks offensively and you have long scoring droughts, every shot that they made seemed a little bit like a dagger.”

Elon held a 22-21 halftime lead following an uneven first 20 minutes.

The Phoenix jumped to an early 7-2 lead, but struggled to make shots against intense Wofford defense.

Forward Lucas Troutman, who entered as Elon’s leading scorer at 16 points per game, scored four points but sat the final 11-plus minutes after picking up a pair of fouls. Matheny said his early absence kept Elon from finding a rhythm.

Wofford led 18-13 with just more than four minutes to play. Back-to-back 3-pointers from Beaumont and Jack Isenbarger gave the Phoenix a 19-18 edge with 3:36 left.

Wofford came out alive in the second half. With the score tied at 25-25, the Terriers reeled off an 8-2 run that forced Matheny to whistle an angry timeout. Wofford won a scramble that led to Spencer Collins’ fastbreak slam and 33-27 edge.

Elon drew within 35-33 on Beaumont’s putback with 12 minutes to play. However, the Phoenix’s offense stagnated from there. Beaumont scored eight points during the next 7:45, but he was the only Elon player to score from the field in that span.

“We couldn’t get multiple scoring trips,” Matheny said. “We couldn’t get on an offensive run. Again, the credit goes to their defense. We couldn’t put stops with scores, and stop, score, stop, score. And that’s a simplistic way to look at it, but we couldn’t get on a scoring run to climb back into it.”

“They’re a physical team and it messed with our emotions somewhat, but we have to work on cutting through a physical defense like they are and not letting it make our offense stale,” Beaumont said.

Koch said Wofford simply scrapped harder.

“Overall they just played harder than us, out-toughed us,” he said. “They got a lot of loose balls that we should get, and the balls that went on the floor, they were down the floor before us. Simple things that we need to work on and get better at than that.”